Large port updates

[DanGer]

Hi Ivan,

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:47:23 PM, you Cannot open file "C\TXT COOKIES\reply-en.txt":

> Is there a "best practice" for automated updating large number of 
> interdependant ports? I keep my ports tree up-to-date, and sometimes I
> wish to install applications that depend on a newer version of an 
> existing one, and fail.

> My current example is gnome. Recently, whatever I want to install 
> requires gnome2.8 - how to update the giant list of gnome libs & apps?
> portupgrade -r? (but on what package?)

portupgrade -arR should be good...

> What about ports that have dialog boxes which require user intervention?

i don't know exactly, you have to watch and see what's happening..

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